NeonMercuryASH
beer, I want beer
My iTunes eats up a huge chunk of my hard drive. Can I take the whole kit and kaboodle and move it to my external hard drive with out losing anything, or will it show up as code?
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Eggs Mayonnaise
All In With The Nuts
You can move your whole music library to another drive, and keep the software on your C drive.
First, copy all your music (hopefully organized in an "iTunes Music" folder) to the other drive. Then in iTunes, go to Edit-Preferences-Advanced. Under "iTunes Music location", hit Browse and find the "iTunes Music" folder in the new location. Once you select it, it should update your library and you're good to go.
If you're not sure where the music is stored on your computer, just right-click on any song in your library, and choose "Show in Windows Explorer" and then backtrack to the parent folder.
First, copy all your music (hopefully organized in an "iTunes Music" folder) to the other drive. Then in iTunes, go to Edit-Preferences-Advanced. Under "iTunes Music location", hit Browse and find the "iTunes Music" folder in the new location. Once you select it, it should update your library and you're good to go.
If you're not sure where the music is stored on your computer, just right-click on any song in your library, and choose "Show in Windows Explorer" and then backtrack to the parent folder.
NeonMercuryASH
beer, I want beer
Thank-You, but I have tV shows in my account as well Same deal?
Eggs Mayonnaise
All In With The Nuts
Yeah. They can sometimes be trickier to organize though. Sometimes iTunes reads them as Movies instead of TV shows, and they end up in the Movies group until you change the settings for each file using Get Info.
But everything gets stored in the overall "iTunes" folder, unless you changed the Preferences to tell iTunes not to organize you library. That would mean your files are scattered all over your computer.
But everything gets stored in the overall "iTunes" folder, unless you changed the Preferences to tell iTunes not to organize you library. That would mean your files are scattered all over your computer.
NeonMercuryASH
beer, I want beer
Big problem. I get an error message that say I do not have permission to move the file.Eggs Mayonnaise said:Yeah. They can sometimes be trickier to organize though. Sometimes iTunes reads them as Movies instead of TV shows, and they end up in the Movies group until you change the settings for each file using Get Info.
But everything gets stored in the overall "iTunes" folder, unless you changed the Preferences to tell iTunes not to organize you library. That would mean your files are scattered all over your computer.
Eggs Mayonnaise
All In With The Nuts
If they were bought through iTunes, the option above I mentioned isn't editable. But you can still physically move the files, and then iTunes will update the library once you point to the new library folder.
Eggs Mayonnaise
All In With The Nuts
The old trick (I don't know if it still works, I haven't bought stuff from iTunes in a while) is to burn the files to CD/DVD right after you buy them, then quit out and open iTunes again, and "Import" those files as if you were converting them to MP3.jack said:
Friday
Bazinga!
I just imported my whole library onto my new computer. It's a mess. My music videos and films are in the same file (movies).
Jack, I tried Eggs' trick a few months ago when I was making graduation CDs for my class. I was making CDs, then was told by Apple I could only copy it 7 times. Well, I imported the last CD back into iTunes, and they showed up as mp3's. Not a problem after that.
Jack, I tried Eggs' trick a few months ago when I was making graduation CDs for my class. I was making CDs, then was told by Apple I could only copy it 7 times. Well, I imported the last CD back into iTunes, and they showed up as mp3's. Not a problem after that.
Eggs Mayonnaise
All In With The Nuts
This is where iTunes still sucks. You need to do "Get Info" on each music video file (or TV show file), and in the Video tab, change the Video Kind to the correct choice (Music Video or TV Show) in the pull-down menu. That will cause the file to move to the proper place in the library.Friday said:
You can't do it to groups of files at once like with some Get Info options, so it's a tedious chore. It's something that Apple really needs to streamline next.
Eggs Mayonnaise
All In With The Nuts
68,000???? :shock:
I thought I was hot shit when I reached 10,000!
I thought I was hot shit when I reached 10,000!
Grammour Boy
Rebel
Hi. I just installed iTunes and it scoured my hard drive for music files, found all of them, and organized them into a Music Library. How come it didn't search and organize the movie files I have on the hard drive as well?
Eggs Mayonnaise
All In With The Nuts
They have to be in QuickTime-capable format to be read by iTunes. You need to convert them to MP4 format.
Grammour Boy
Rebel
Thanks. But that's kinda crappy on iTunes' part.
Eggs Mayonnaise
All In With The Nuts
Some formats can be converted right in iTunes. But it's not always a perfecct conversion.
There's a shareware tool called IMToo, you can find it online. Worth buying if you have a ton of files you want to watch on your iPod, or to convert from DVD.
There's a shareware tool called IMToo, you can find it online. Worth buying if you have a ton of files you want to watch on your iPod, or to convert from DVD.
Grammour Boy
Rebel
I don't have an iPod. But I like the iTunes library organizer features.
It's regrettable that Quicktime can't play regular MPEG's, AVI's , WMV's and XVID's.
It's regrettable that Quicktime can't play regular MPEG's, AVI's , WMV's and XVID's.
Eggs Mayonnaise
All In With The Nuts
Oh well. You're unique.